Bennett Smedes was the son of St. Mary’s founder, Rev. Aldert Smedes. This photo is from the 1917 yearbook of St. Mary’s school.
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SMEDES, Rev. Aldert (1810-1877)
Picture of Reverend Aldert Smedes from the 1909 St. Mary’s Yearbook. Rev. Smedes founded the school in 1842.
St. Mary’s Yearbooks Online
St. Mary’s School, founded in 1842, by Rev. Aldert Smedes, is Raleigh’s oldest continually operating educational institution and the oldest school for girls in the State [1-3]. Many of the school’s yearbooks are now available online at the Internet Archive.
The yearbooks begin with the publication, The Muse, which ran from 1900-1924 and continue with The Stagecoach, which began in 1925. In addition to the class rosters, each yearbook contains a variety of information about the school, the faculty, the students, and their activities.
Muse: 1900 | 1903 | 1904 | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 | 1911
1912 |1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922
Stagecoach: 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933
1934 |1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944
1945 | 1946 |1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955
1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961| 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1966
1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 |1971 | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977
1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1984 | 1985| 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991
1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
[1] Vickers, James. Raleigh, City of Oaks: An Illustrated History. Woodland Hills, Calif: Windsor Publications, 1982. [View the book index]
[2] St. Mary’s College. National Park Service. Web. 5 May 2012. <http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/raleigh/stm.htm>.
[3] St. Mary’s: ‘A Thorough and Elegant Education . . .’. USGenWeb Archives. 5 May 2012. <http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wake/bicen/stmarys.txt>
[4] Waugh, Elizabeth C. North Carolina’s Capital, Raleigh. Raleigh: Junior League of Raleigh, 1967.